Canadian PM honors firefighters who battled Fort McMurray blaze

[WorldNews]

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid tribute Friday to crews who fought to save fire-ravaged Fort McMurray, amid criticism for not showing up in the city sooner. "The work that you did to save so much of this community, to save so much of this city and the downtown core and so many homes was unbelievable," Trudeau said from Fort McMurray, after flying over areas that had been devastated by the fires. Canadians were only "beginning to hear the wonderful news that so much of the town was saved," Trudeau told a group of rescuers in Fort McMurray.

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